Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Gerard McCarthy
Tutor
Rosemary Maddox
Fred Smith
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(48cp at 100 level or above including PICT103 and PICT202) or ((48cp at 100 level or above including 24cp in PICT units) and (admission to BSecStud or BSecStudLLB or BBusAnalyticsBSecStud)) and permission by special approval
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
As the Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) unit for the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, PICT320 partners students with organisations drawn from government, industry, and civil society. Teams of students will work on projects designed both to contribute to the mission of their partner organisation and to give students the opportunity to apply the insights they have developed over the course of their program to a practical problem in their field. Mentors from the partner organisations will provide guidance to the student teams during the unit. Alongside their PACE project work, students will undertake some complementary career development exercises and consider what it means to think and act ethically in their chosen careers.
Applications to undertake PICT320 in Session 2 will open at the start of Session 1 and close at the end of Week 5 in Session 1. The process for enrolling in PICT320 is to submit a request for an on-line application form by emailing arts.pace@mq.edu.au.
If your application is approved you will be advised to submit an application for Special Approval to finalise your enrolment in the unit. The Special Approval Permission Waiver is the last stage in the process, so you do not need to submit this until advised.
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Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Quiz | 20% | No | Week 4, Week 7 |
PACE Project | 60% | No | Week 6 (Plan, Reflection & peer review); Week 11 (Final) |
Reflection | 20% | No | Week 13 |
Due: Week 4, Week 7
Weighting: 20%
Two online quizzes will be administered to assess knowledge and understanding of the assigned unit materials, including lectures, readings, and other resources. The first quiz will be based on the unit materials from Weeks 2, 3, and 4. The second quiz will be based on the unit materials from Weeks 5, 6, and 7. Each quiz is worth 10% of your final mark.
Due: Week 6 (Plan, Reflection & peer review); Week 11 (Final)
Weighting: 60%
Ethics of Security is a Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) unit. You will be placed in a small team of students and assigned to work on a project set by a partner organisation from the public, private, or not-for-profit sector. Your team will mostly work independently, but a mentor from your partner organisation will be available to help guide you through the project. A project plan laying out how your team intends to approach the project will be due in Week 6 (weighted: 20%), Midterm reflection and peer review (weighted:10%) and the final results of your project will be delivered as both a written report and an oral presentation in Week 11 (unless your PACE mentor sets a different due date) (weighted: 30%). More information on PACE for students is available at www.pace.mq.edu.au.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 20%
A small number of unassessed reflective exercises will be assigned during the course of the session, culminating in an assessed reflective task due in Week 13. These exercises will encourage students to reflect on both their past and future, including: what knowledge and skills they have learned over the course of the unit, and over the course of their program of study more generally; how they might apply their knowledge and skills beyond a university setting; how they work with and for others; what contribution they made to their PACE partner organisation; and what their career goals are and how they might best be achieved.
UNIT REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS
REQUIRED READINGS
TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED
SUBMITTING ASSESSMENT TASKS
LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENT TASKS
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
WORD LIMITS FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
REASSESSMENT OF ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE SEMESTER
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